Bruce Campbell on what it would take for him to do another EVIL DEAD + more

Hey folks, Harry here... as card carrying members of the BRUCE CAMPBELL FOR EVERY ROLE EVER SOCIETY or the BCFERES (cuz it rolls off the tongue so SMOOTHLY) - Entertainment Weekly contacted us to have this exclusive interview segment up for your enjoyment. And yet, there's still more at the link below covering a great deal of Bruce Campbell awesomeness. So - groove to it baby, groove to it...

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and here's the blurb about what they're up to:

“Burn Notice” star and B-movie legend Bruce Campbell takes Entertainment Weekly’s Dalton Ross through his storied TV career in an exclusive video series on EW.com. Tuesday’s installments cover “Burn Notice,” “Xena” and “Hercules,” and “Jack of All Trades.” Later this week, Bruce discusses why “Brisco County Jr.” never found a large audience, his near-miss in replacing David Duchovny on “The X-Files,” directing himself in “My Name Is Bruce,” and more.

Funny. Scary. Classic Bruce. And amazing work given the rock-bottom budget (I forget what the spit-and-shoestring budget was, but it was cheap). Sam Raimi at his best. To contrast, Darkman was not Raimi at his best. Spiderman III was not Raimi at his best.

I, for one, would love to see Campbell & Raimi & Tapert be given even just a moderate budget to go back and do another Evil Dead movie. It wouldn't need to have a big budget to be a hit, it would be a real new Evil Dead movie, that's all you need, for the freakin love of God.

I bow to your firstness. While I am a serious competitor in the battle for firsties, I give props when I am beaten fair-and-square on the field of battle. Good show, Richard Stark. Good show.<br><br>Given the real goal is to piss off the people who are so crazy nuts about people posting "First!!!" in the TalkBacks. Heh.

As much as it pains Fred to say, Bruce would have been too funny in role, even if they tried to make Bruce serious. It took Duchovny's sincere belief in role of Fox Mulder to pull it off. Bruce would have been too much of a skeptic wiseacre. Fred not get to write 'wiseacre' too often, so Fred likes when Fred can write wiseacre.

1 & 2 were awesome, have never seen Army Of Darkness, even though I need to, it just always looked cheesy compared to the first two. Evil Dead 2 was a bit lighter than 1, but AoD just looked almost like a flat out comedy, and it just didn't appeal to me. Still doesn't really, but one of these days I will get around to seeing it. On a side note, watched Rami's Darkman the other night, still love that movie, I was even Darkman for Halloween one year.

Campbell needs to lose some weight. He's going to look exactly like William Shatner when he's in his 70s at this weig..I mean rate. Hell, he looks like him shape wise kind of sort of right now. He has millions, so he can afford to get a motivating self trainer. He can can't make an Evil Dead 4 looking like that. Also, the "you can't take all of Sam's toys away" line could be interpreted in so many ways. It's almost like he wants to save his friend from the monster that Spider-man may have created. Give him $12 million and make ED4. Erectile Dysfunction 4: Uptown.
If they can make The Grudge remake for $4 million and make it at least spooky, nice looking, and make a shitload of cash then they can do a new ED for even less than what it took to make Army of Darkness. We know Raimi can still work the ol' magic because of the surgery room scene from Spider-man 2. Yeah, it was Sam imitating Sam but what do you think is going to be in a new ED movie? That scene was very ED1 and ED2. Army didn't have a whole lot of that fancy, artsy camera stuff in it. There's also the scene right before Doc Ock and Green Goblin Jr. strike their bargain. That double camera swoop move right before Ock appears is lifted right out of ED2.

That's what they need to do is a Darkman remake starring Bruce. That's what Raimi originally wanted anyway, but the movie studio hacks wanted a bigger star. That's why they got Liam and Bruce was reduced to a cameo at the end.

ED2 was not a remake of ED1. The first few minutes (right up to where his woman gets snatched was a RECAP of the events of ED1 minus the rest of the characters). Those first few scene were kind of like a "reimagining" of the first film and then the rest of the story follows that. I'm not sure if this is confirmed (via creator lips) or just a very nice explanation (it has been years since I read it), but this is the version of events I subscribe to. ED2 simply stripped all the characters 'cept Linda (assuming that's her name), tweaks it a bit, and then tells us something new but similar. It gets around the remake problem (think about it, why remake it and think about the times...it wasn't today and the past few years with our remakeitis obsession...this version of events makes perfect sense).

its been said a million times....the plan was to use footage from part 1 to play catch up but sam didnt have the rights so he refilmed what he needed. budget was already tight so that explains why there's only ash and linda. i mean man, its the age of the internet, the information is and has been out there for years, even i knew this and i'm not even a fan. but alas...i like chocolate.

I remember everyone hating Army of Drakness when it came out and even though people have warmed up to it more over the years Im hate the fact of every 4th movie.WHY?
ALIEN 4,BATMAN AND ROBIN,SUPERMAN 4,INDY 4 THIS SUMMER,EVERY 4TH CHAPTER IN EVERY HORROR SERIES,JAWS 4...AND WORST OF ALL STAR WARS PHANTOM MENACE.

I'd love to see a film version of Evil Dead: The Musical (with Bruce and Sam's consent/assistance of course). That way we don't get a crappy remake, we don't get an unnecessary sequel, but we still have low budget fun and Bruce in a cameo role.

... if they ever decide to make another edition of this series, here's to hoping that they return the filming to Tenessee, North Carolina or to Raimi/Campbell's home state of Michigan. It's sometimes nice when movies have the feeling that comes with a look not associated with southern Cali or NY (even though the differences between distinct regions' wooded areas tend to be somewhat subtle).

suggesting he'd have been better than fucking Rowdy Roddy Piper in the They Live is silly. They Live is a classic, a film that doesn't need anything. It came out of the middle of Carpenter's golden age.

1) I started watching Burn Notice because they keep showing it over and over. I actually like it.<p>2) I had to do a math problem in college that was similar to the one the guy is working on at the beginning of that clip. Something about finding the area that mounted video cameras can't see in an art gallery. I HATED that class.

My Evil Dead 2 Book of the Dead Edition doesn't smell bad anymore. And the interviewer is an idiot. What's "stupid" about encasing a DVD in a prop from the film? It even screams when you poke it in the eye! And the puffy outer "skin" doubles as protection for the finest transfer of Evil Dead 2 ever.

Still completely cocky & womanizing, hits on anything that moves. Do a full comedy aging Justice League movie. Have Billy Bob Thornton as a pissed off alcoholic old Batman and Steve Buscemi as a creepy Green Lantern. Hell, throw Rosie O'Donnel in as a has been Wonder Woman for good measure. Cast someone young and traditional as Superman, have them all get pissed off that he's not aging and continues to be celebrated while they have all been forgotten. Make the whole thing a BubbaHoTep-ish comedy about them trying to take out Superman and staying regular. it'd be horrific, put probably pretty funny

Abd after slaying all the deadites, Donald Sutherland could possess her hand...the right hand, cause it would be The Chosen One, as opposed to the left. The Unchosen One. Ahhh, the poor lefty never gets picked for all the exciting games.

It's way too late for a decent Evil Dead 4. You fanboys will continue to scream for it until it comes out and ends up like Indy 4. There is no other trilogy that is as consistently great as this one (well, LoTR maybe), and it would be nice if nothing fucked it up.

I can't recommend They Live enough - but I'm not going to tell you anything about it - trust me, it's the BEST way to experience this flick! <p>
Forget anti-Jew, anti-Republican, anti-whatever - just check it out...

I bet Rami won't let it go for rights and he does not have time to do anything with it. People clamor for an Evil Dead all the time. Even if they are bad I would still like a whole slew of campy movies as long as we get the Ash attitude. Campbell is not doing anything else worth a shit. Give this property to new directors and let's roll!

This is nothing new. Bruce has been saying this for years. He won't do an EVIL DEAD movie without Mr. Bigshot. Raimi's career took off with A SIMPLE PLAN and in a different way (believe me, I hate to even say this as much as I hate the film) FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME and then in a big way SPIDER MAN. If ever at some point, Raimi takes a step back and decides for a goof to revisit his roots and make a no holds barred EVIL DEAD movie, they'll make one. It's always been about Sam. It's his decision. He'd write it, direct it and produce it. It's a given Bruce would be in it if Raimi directed it. I mean come on. He's been in everything else. Him and the Buick.

Didn't Billy Drago pass away? There's no point in going back without him. As much as Bruce was at his absolute peak with that series, its going nowhere without Drago.
you guys obviously are all in your mid to late 20s. Just wait until you hit 45 and your body decides its time to get wide. Its not a question of eating too much McDonalds - its just what happens to the body as you age.<p>
Thomas Jefferson costumes and ivory laced corsets.

I swear, I have never laughed so much at a film in my life as much as I did when I first saw Bruce go mental in Evil Dead 2. Funniest film ever.
Army Of Darkness had some hilarious moments in it too.
I pray they will make a fourth film one day.
And fuck all the bitches whining about Bruce gaining some weight, we all have . Its called getting older.

i live 45 minutes from morristown.<p>
i make a pilgrimage to whats left of the location every so often. just so i can pine about how far removed i am from anything cool related to filmmaking.<p>
what? it's tough being a film fanatic in NE tennessee. how many exclusive test screening do you think come anywhere near me? huh?<p>
don't judge me...